Re: What PSU rating for Athlon 2400 with 6 HDDs?

From: kony (spam_at_spam.com)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:06:30 GMT

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:20:17 +0100, Franklin
<no_thanks@mail.com> wrote:

>On 14 Oct 2004, kony wrote:
>
>>>Is there a significant variation in voltages/current required?
>>>
>>>Is any such variation mainly due to the design of the mobo? Or
>>>is it mainly due to the choice of components (chipset and
>>>processor)?
>>
>> Any/all of these can vary current. One board may default
>> memory to different voltage, another may be running at
>> higher FSB speed, then the obvious things like chipset or
>> processor count too... these differences could offset each
>> other or add up to a signficant difference in some cases.
>> Even so, the difference between one motherboard and another
>> will often be much less than the difference between one CPU
>> or another (if large enough frequency or voltage, core
>> change), or comparing a budget video card to a high-end
>> model, or number of hard drives.
>
>
>Which compenents in a PC tend to use the +3.3V supply? Is it
>*typically* the cpu, mobo and memory?

Not CPU. Motherboard may, memory might, but those too can
use 5V, depends on particular manufacturer's design.

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